The Historic Traveler Newsletter!
September 1, 2025

To Our Readers:

Happy Labor Day!! I hope you are definitely not laboring! 😊

How about I offer something else to celebrate? I know it’s the end of the summer, but you may already be starting to think about your holiday season travel plans! I wanted to let you know that we’ve now partnered up with nearly 20 different companies that offer services for travelers!

Here are some of them:

Accommodations: Agoda, Stay22
Air Travel: Kiwi, Priority Pass (airport lounges)
Local Tours and Attractions: Viator, Big Bus, Klook, Get Your Guide and Tigets
Transport: Bikesbooking, FlixBus, Discover Cars, Direct Ferries, Welcome Pick Up (Airport Taxis), Rail Europe
Luggage: Case Luggage and Stasher (Luggage storage)
With More to Come


And Don’t Forget
You can take advantage of our Complimentary Travel Concierge to book your WHOLE TRIP!

Access all of this at https://thehistorictraveler.com/traveler/

Happy Travels!

Cliff Bookstore at the Cotton Sinkhole in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

Keep Your Eye Out for a New Ken Burns Series!

The master documentarian is at it again with a new series on PBS coming Nov. 16—The American Revolution. But let’s hope it’s not his last. With the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting its doors, major funding for significant events like Burns’ work will be far more challenging to mount.

Art Deco Tours of Los Angeles

The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles regularly offers architectural tours, fashion shows and era-appropriate cocktail parties. Its spring ball on Catalina Island drew more than 1,000 attendees. If you want to relive the glory days of Art Deco emblazoned on LA’s buildings or join one of the soirees, check out the website HERE. The Los Angeles Conservancy also offers Art Deco Tours, including the famed turquoise terra cotta Eastern Columbia building and the Lalique glass-adorned Oviatt Building. READ MORE HERE

Ever Wondered What Defines Gothic Architecture?

Writer Morgan Goldberg penned a piece for Architectural Digest on that very subject and spoke to three experts. Take a walk through a stunning cathedral or two along with these authorities and be able to expound on the differences between pointed arches and rib vaults. Read more HERE

New Collections in the Photo Gallery

Black Sam: Prince of Pirates
By James Lewis

Before Jack Sparrow ever staggered onto the screen, there was Samuel Bellamy—the real-life “Black Sam”—whose life at sea was equal parts tragedy, romance, and revolution.

In Black Sam: Prince of Pirates, author James Lewis revives the swagger and substance of this gentleman pirate, who turned to privateering not for gold alone, but for a sense of justice, freedom, and thwarted love. Born in England but bound for colonial Massachusetts, Sam Bellamy was a seaman and dreamer—a man whose ambitions were stoked by Enlightenment ideals and a bitter refusal to bow to the powers that kept men in chains, whether on land or sea.

What sets this account apart is Lewis’s ability to draw us deep into the paradoxes of the early 18th-century Atlantic world—a place where empire and enslavement collided with ideals of liberty. Bellamy, whose doomed love affair with Maria Hallett haunts the narrative like sea mist on Cape Cod, comes alive as a man of principle as much as of plunder. His brief but meteoric rise as captain of the Whydah Galley—a ship taken, then repurposed into a floating democracy—is as thrilling as it is sobering.

Lewis writes with the pace of a novelist and the precision of a scholar. We feel the salt air, the thrum of rebellion, the ache of moral contradiction. And in the end, Black Sam becomes not just a tale of piracy, but a meditation on justice, identity, and the turbulent currents of history.

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Here are a few articles you don’t want miss


10 Fabulous Funiculars: Where History Rides the Rails – Perched between earth and sky, funicular railways have long been the charming workhorses of hilly cities, hoisting passengers up steep slopes with mechanical grace. These cable-pulled carriages are not merely modes of transport—they are windows into the engineering marvels and urban dreams of bygone eras. In the clatter of their tracks and the sway of their ascent, the spirit of a city often reveals itself.

Nikkƍ: Japan's Sacred Mountains and Shimmering Shrines – There are places that feel touched by the divine—where mountains cradle mystery and every breath of cedar-scented air feels like a prayer. Nikkƍ, nestled in the forested hills north of Tokyo, is such a place. Here, the boundary between the mortal and the sacred blurs, painted in gold leaf, crimson gates, and the hush of ancient trees.

Zagreb: Croatia's Elegant Crossroads of Time – In the heart of Croatia, where Austro-Hungarian elegance mingles with medieval charm, stands Zagreb—a city of inviting squares, grand boulevards, and quiet corners that hum with history. Here, every street and piazza tell a story: of empires, revolutions, and the enduring pulse of Croatian spirit.

And catch up with these great features



You can see them all at https://thehistorictraveler.com/blog

Jackie Lapin

Jackie Lapin is the Historic-Traveler-in-Chief at The Historic Traveler, a media outlet and membership community for history lovers offering article features, travel resources, and stunning photo galleries, alongside carefully curated recommendations for historical novels, history books, biographies, films, museums, and more that illuminate some of history’s most treasured stories. An avid historical reader herself, Jackie shares highlights from more than 500 destinations she has visited and photographed, presented through a quarterly e-magazine, website, newsletter, and the Historic Traveler International membership community—a dynamic network of like-minded travelers and readers.

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